This repository contains an Ansible configuration for setting up a Mac from scratch. It's primary purpose is setting up a new Mac from scratch.

There's a simple shell script in bin/bootstrap which will perform the initial steps of:

Installing Xcode
Installing Ansible
Fetching required Ansible roles and collections

And then runs the main playbook ansible-osx.yml.

For future updates, bin/apply can be used to run just the Ansible playbook without the setup commands.

It's important to note that this isn't designed to be particularly robust, particularly when it comes to required env vars, it may be required to run this. Then close the terminal and open it again and re-run and then repeat this process a few times.

This is based on https://github.com/TalkingQuickly/ansible-osx-setup/blob/master/ansible_osx.yml and https://www.talkingquickly.co.uk/2021/01/macos-setup-with-ansible

• Add more packages (typescript-language-server typescript)
• ssh + ansible vault
• dotfiles using Stow (or alternatively see https://github.com/geerlingguy/dotfiles)
• git setup (see https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/ansible/tree/master/tasks, remember this is ubuntu repo)
• Use ASDF as version manager for node, python etc (see original repo).